Funny, isn’t it, how as soon as a certain type of people start doing things you like doing, that you kind of stop wanting to do them? That happened for me with absolutely all forms of social media yesterday, when the Conservative party announced a half-million quid “advertising campaign to recruit online ‘friends’ of the [...]
Entries from February 2008
David Cameron Will Not Charge You to be His Friend
February 28th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 3 Comments
In Stories
You heard it from the ‘horsesmouth.co.uk’
February 26th, 2008 by Matt Rebeiro · 1 Comment
In Social media
…I’m sorry, i’m sorry, i’m sorry. That was a terrible pun. But, before you think i’m a complete chump and stop reading - don’t!
Horsesmouth has the potential for brilliance.
Horsesmouth.co.uk is a social media ‘mentoring’ site owned and run by The Horses Mouth Foundation and attempts to unite mentors with mentees. Sounds odd? Well, put it [...]
KUDOS: Road testing a social media acronym
February 19th, 2008 by Leo Ryan · 12 Comments
In Blogging · Buzz/sentiment analysis · Commenting · Social media · Tool development · Word-of-mouth marketing
At last night’s chinwag I road tested a bit of thinking we’ve been doing in the form of a snappy acronym; KUDOS.
Essentially it’s a framework that we’ve been using to understand how social media activities work, don’t work and should work. Quite simply it is a set of qualities that we look for in a [...]
Stop Spam. Read Books.
February 19th, 2008 by Ben · 5 Comments
In New technologies · Stories · Tool development
From the worldwide quest to digitize all books (see below), here’s another way in which you and I can exert a tiny effort to collaborate on solving a greater cause.
Stumbling through the ether yesterday, I noticed that the CAPTCHA (get this: “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”) I had [...]
Jackass + Web 2.0 = Bragster
February 14th, 2008 by Matt Rebeiro · 3 Comments
In Gaming · Networking · Social media
Bragster is the latest must-use social networking site… Well, no, it isn’t. Allow me to explain what it is and then you might see why…
Bragster is a social networking site (based in London) that allows friends to make bets and dares with each other. However, these dares and bets aren’t for money, no siree, they’re [...]